More Photos Of A Bulked Up Tom Hardy Find Their Way Online!

After that picture apparently taken on the set of The Dark Knight Rises was leaked online last week, Tom Hardy himself has posted a few pictures revealing just how much he has in fact bulked up for the role of Bane...

Sending in some photos of himself to TomHardy.org, the British actor has shown off just how much he's bulked up in preparation for his role as Bane in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise, The Dark Knight Rises. You can see a full gallery of images over at the site, but here are two of the best.

With an all star cast which includes Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Garly Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, The Dark Knight Rises is set to be released on July 20, 2012!

shooting doesnt start till what lat may early june? To become ripped you have to bulk up first, with around a month until showtime I think he will go another week of bulking and then the rest getting cut.. its a long process to be badass ;)

He's gonna own the character. For all the whiners, do you want an actor or a steroid freak? Seriously, find me an "actor" as big as you think Bane should be who can actually act. I don't think Ah-nuld at his biggest "Conan the Barbarian" size would satisfy some of you, but then again I return to my previous statement.

I know he can pull it off just based on how well he's been in his previous roles. Hes bigger than he was and I believe they can fix the height and have Him be Bane pre venom. Then CGI the rest of the muscles onto him when he is on venom. I mean look what they did with Two Face using cgi.
@VictorHugo acctually he was Picard's clone in Star Trek Nemesis.

Nothing about Michael Keaton was ever Bruce Wayne or Batman, he was short, had crap hair, zero suaveness, looked like an 80's pop reject in his tuxedo and his bat sui was the most ill-fitting costume in the history of comic films. He looked like a joke, his head was HUGE, his fight skills were non-existent, he had more gadgets than James Bond and his lips looked like dried prunes in that mask.

Bale is the only one to ever get the characteristics of Bruce and Batman on screen as well as the fight skills and intellect. Their version of Bane will hopefully not be the idiotic comic version that kept growing beyond reasonable size with each stupid artist. All he has to do is increase to a size of a body builder and no more. The venom should be more about strength than size, he's not Ang Lee's Hulk!

k @everyone crying about him not being tall enough... youre all slow. It's a movie. they have ways of making people appear taller. Mark strong said sinestro is close to 7 feet tall in GL and he sure as hell isnt.

No shit. The second photo could literally be me. Crazy, I had coupla peons from the office come by, showed them the pic and they asked...where did you get the car?? I had just picked up my poster I had made today too! (The Secret Six cover of Bane in poster size, framed) Gonna be sweet!!!

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